Transferring a Repository from TFVC to Git [Snippets]

This article should give a step-by-step guide of how to install and use the git-tfs tool to transfer TFVC data to a Git repository correctly.

Instructions

1. Install the windows package manager « Chocolatey » https://chocolatey.org/install.
   1. Open a CMD window with administrative privileges.
   2. copy/paste the following and execute:
   3. @"%SystemRoot%System32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%chocolateybin"
   4. Close and reopen CMD again with administrative privileges.
2. Install the git-tfs tool: https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs.
   1. In the CMD window, type in the following:
   2. choco install gittfs
   3. Open a git bash on the machine and run the following commands:
   4. git config --global user.name "Some Name"
   5. git config --global user.email "some.em@i.l"
   6. git config --global push.default simple

This gives the git repository your user info for when you push the git repository to the server.

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